• 8 months ago
Here's how to make pizza sauce by the head chef from Franco Manca.
Transcript
00:00 Hello guys, my name is Rafa, I'm the head chef for Franco Manca and today I'm going to show you guys how we make our tomato sauce.
00:05 Okay guys,
00:10 our tomato recipe is quite simple.
00:12 We use those tomatoes which are quite sweet in flavor.
00:16 They have this sweetness because of the soil and the weather or where they come from. They come from the
00:22 Campania area under the Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy.
00:25 Now I'm going to show you how we prepare these tomatoes at Franco Manca.
00:29 All you're gonna do, you're gonna get a tin opener, open it through,
00:32 put it in a bowl.
00:35 You add a little bit of salt, around 20 grams.
00:40 And then using a potato masher,
00:46 you're just gonna mash it
00:49 until it becomes a sauce.
00:51 Don't worry if you have some bits in the middle of the tomato because that's what you want.
00:54 You don't want to be like a plain, like, smoothie sauce. You want to have some of the bits into it.
01:00 So you can see that there are actually real tomatoes in here.
01:02 The reason why we don't cook those tomatoes is because we want people to actually feel the flavor of it.
01:09 If you cook them, they're going to become quite heavy after in the pizza.
01:12 So you want to feel the freshness and the lightness of the tomato when you have your pizza as well.
01:16 Now that the tomato is quite smooth and you have just small bits into it,
01:20 I'm gonna put the tomato sauce on the sides and I'll quickly open a pizza base and show you guys how to put the tomato
01:25 on the base of the pizza.
01:28 With the ladle,
01:34 I'm gonna take a full ladle of tomato,
01:36 place it all in the middle of the pizza.
01:39 Then from the middle, you're gonna spread it around,
01:41 leaving a bit of room on the edges, like a finger.
01:44 Then from here, you can add anything like mozzarella,
01:47 hams, chorizos, whatever, and use it with your new perfect tomato sauce.
01:52 (upbeat music)
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